For many students, earning a college degree can be a major step towards establishing a dynamic career. For Earl O’Brien, the decision to go back to college was life-changing and pertinent to his achievements.

Recently, Military Times, the publication, which focuses on news and information for service members and their families, named Berkeley College among the “Best for Vets: Colleges 2019 Four-Year Schools.” This is the sixth year Berkeley College has received this distinction.

North Bergen resident Andrea Linskey went to work right after high school. She wanted to return to school to receive a higher education one day in the future, but for her, it was always about proper timing.

Last year, after Oslene Johnson attended the “Speak Up and Speak Out: Women in Media: The Courage to Own Your Story” event at Berkeley College in New York City, she couldn’t wait to get back to her campus in White Plains to start making a greater impact on her community.

As a wife, and mother of a young adult, two teenagers, an adolescent, and two toddlers, Dallie said that “Graduating from college was a major accomplishment because it was something that I could do for myself and nobody else.”

Growing up in foster care, Darnella Harris thought that everything in her world would stop when she got pregnant at the age of 16. She didn’t realize at the time that her life wasn’t over. It was just getting started.